Category: Greasemonkey

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to write scripts that alter the web pages you visit. You can use it to make a web site more readable or more usable. You can fix rendering bugs that the site owner can’t be bothered to fix themselves. You can alter pages so they work better with assistive technologies that speak a web page out loud or convert it to Braille. You can even automatically retrieve data from other sites to make two sites more interconnected.

There is a huge repository of user scripts that do all kinds of amazing things at Userscripts.org.
But Firefox isn’t the only browser that you can write these scripts for. There is also a macro for K-Meleon called GreaseMeleon, that will allow that browser to use Greasemonkey scripts, too. And there is even a way to use them in Google’s Chrome browser. (instructions)

All this is great if all you want to do is use Greasemonkey scripts, but what if you want to write your own? That’s where Dive Into Greasemonkey can help.

It takes you step-by-step from explaining what Greasemonkey is, installing it into Firefox, installing user scripts, to actually writing and debugging your own. Chock full of information that will help the beginner and expert, alike.

Dive into Greasemonkey is a valuable reference for anyone that wants to truly unleash the power of user scripts.